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BCSHCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Cueing retrospective verbal reports in usability testing through eye-movement replay
An experimental validation is presented of a novel method for usability testing that entails the playback of dynamic eyetracking data to cue the elicitation of retrospective verba...
Nicola Eger, Linden J. Ball, Robert Stevens, Jon D...
UM
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Google Shared. A Case-Study in Social Search
Web search is the dominant form of information access and everyday millions of searches are handled by mainstream search engines, but users still struggle to find what they are lo...
Barry Smyth, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Michael ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Improving relevance judgment of web search results with image excerpts
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
Zhiwei Li, Shuming Shi, Lei Zhang
ERCIMDL
2000
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Effects of Cognitive and Problem Solving Style on Internet Search Tool
This paper presents a research proposal on user -oriented evaluation method to compar e the usability of Internet search tools. Cognitive style and problem solving style are identi...
Lim Tek Yong, Tang Enya Kong
AVI
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability
While zoomable user interfaces can improve the usability of applications by easing data access, a drawback is that some users tend to become lost after they have zoomed in. Previo...
Thorsten Büring, Jens Gerken, Harald Reiterer